Oman Fishing 2022
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Giles Padmore. Annoying both man and beast all over the world.
Indeed he is (both annoying and lucky to have me). But, funnily enough, I wouldn't have him any other way
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That's really nuts G and I am glad you are safe. I've always wondered about a breaching whale landing on a boat, never thought one would hammer a boat that someone I knew was on!
No, I’m pretty sure exploding whales are mostly funny.
TBF, it's an exploding whale carcass. It's not like some asshole shot an RPG at a whale; the sad part was that it beached and died. The funny parts for me were a) that someone thought this was a good idea, b) that they did it, c) that it resulted in what you'd expect, and d) the reporting itself–gets me every time. I think I watched it 100 times when I first saw it eons ago.
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@Giles How’s the fishing? You’re uncharacteristically quiet…hope you’re okay and having fun.
@goosehd - thanks for checking in. I was worried, after speaking on Sunday afternoon I didn't hear from Giles on Monday, but he was in touch a few times yesterday so I know he's fine. The connectivity at the fishing camp is obviously pretty unreliable, and on Monday night they overnighted on an island, way off the coast, with zero signal. He did admit that the experience of staying on the island was not one he wanted to repeat, he said he was too old (and I'm sure too used to his creature comforts) to sleep on sand in wet clothes!
So we may have to wait until the weekend when he's finished fishing to get more news of his adventures, let's hope we get some photos of fish…
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@Madame Buttonfly Paula, thank you for the update. I love seeing you active on here and hope you’re doing well!
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@Madame Buttonfly Paula, thank you for the update. I love seeing you active on here and hope you’re doing well!
I'm doing great, thank you - looking forward to having some family and friends here for a few nights over Easter, and then getting them all packed off home before Giles gets back on Sunday night Sending love to you and all your lovely girls x x x x
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We managed to get back out to the islands on Monday.
Early start….
In the windy season, the islands are virtually impossible to get to. The locals say that if you are on one of the islands in June, you aren't going to get off until September. This ship lost power in the windy season in 2020 and ended up breaking its back on the shore of Sawdah. What I find amazing is that the containers are still unopened on the deck…
One place that has fascinated me since 2016 when I first came here, is this resort. The fools who came up with the idea invested many many millions before realising that the location was completely untenable. The houses basically being swamped by waves in June through September, so the whole project was abandoned….
This is where we ended up camping, so I had a good look around….
Needless to say, the weather is taking its toll…
Our camp - the only company apart from each other, was a lot of rats - I zipped up my tent very thoroughly…..
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Fishing so far has been good, but not outstanding. We have had a lot of Queenfish, Emporers, Rainbow Runners, Groupers and small Giant Trevally. My largest GT has been about 12kg and maybe the largest any of us have landed is 25kg. We start to get excited at 40kg, so we are well off that.
Yesterday we had dozens of hits from GT's, but most of them were coming up short, and we only contacted about 10 in total.
Another rod was broken (on a large GT that took from under the boat - basically you are screwed when this happens), bringing the total number of smashed rods at 3 so far for the week (I have not bust a rod, but Szymon bust one of mine for me…...FFS
)Me and Szymon with a couple of Queenies we had yesterday. When the Queenies are around, I switch to very light tackle - it's amazing fun....
